Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
Nicholas SparksTags: romanticism
There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I am more than just my appearance'. If each object quivers with readiness to imply something other than itself, if each perception is a word in a poem dense with connotations, then the poet's selection of any given subject of speculation will become... a means of attuning himself to the rhythms and harmonies of reality at large. ... The notion of a network of correspondence is not an outmoded Romantic illusion: it represents a crucial intuition...
Roger CardinalTags: perception poetry poets intuition symbolism correspondence romanticism poetics
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
Leni RiefenstahlTags: art style legend romanticism
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
Louis SimpsonTags: liberty freedom liberalism capitalism satire individualism self-reliance frontier romanticism restlessness walt-whitman american-exceptionalism rootlessness
[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defended when it produced such dreadful results and was advanced by such imperfect creatures? At least Julien did not see the desperate fate of the ruined lover as a nineteenth-century novelist or a poet might have done, recasting the tale to create some appealing romantic hero, dashed to pieces against the unyielding society that produced him. Rather, his initial opinion -- held almost to the last -- was of Olivier as a failure, ruined by a terible weakness.
Iain PearsTags: perception love passion poetry destruction romanticism
Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.
Carroll BryantTags: humor love romanticism humor-relationships romantic-comedy
Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!
William Dean HowellsTags: heroism hero realism romanticism
Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!
Percy Bysshe ShelleyTags: poetry romantic kiss romanticism adonais
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.
Catherine BreillatTags: romance romanticism the-last-mistress the-romantic-era
I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.
Roman PayneTags: life poetry nature time sorrow moon homer romanticism time-passing the-odyssey full-moon the-wanderess
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